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Unfinished Mona Lisa stirs debate at Portland Museum
Portland Museum of Art faces skepticism over its claim that a newly acquired painting is Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished Mona Lisa. Director John Halverson defends the attribution as a catalyst for scholarly debate while noting the work’s strong period characteristics and left handed brushwork.
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Portland, Maine
Portland Museum of Art
John Halverson
Henry H. Reichhold
Maine
Fogg Art Museum
Harvard
Andrew Wyeth
Winslow Homer
Leonardo da Vinci
Carlo Pedretti
UCLA
Halverson
da Vinci
John Shearson
Princeton University
Leonardo
Shearson
Charles Parkhurst
Washington
National Gallery of Art
Parkhurst
Museum
Megan Thorn
Ms. Thorn
Portland